How much did BOWDOIN COLLEGE grant in FY2023?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 88% of BOWDOIN COLLEGE’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

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2020

bdcfinancialloans

2021

educationrightsdempseycancerpersonal financesocial changejustice

2022

creativeportland's

2023

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2023 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

$10k–50k5 grants · $77k
$50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$250k+1 grant · $486k

$20,600

Median grant

States reached

$3.0B

Total assets

Largest grants

TOWN OF BRUNSWICK$485,780
FIRST PARISH CHURCH$50,000
BRUNSWICK DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION$25,450
TOWN OF HARPSWELL$20,600
UNITED WAY OF MID COAST MAINE$10,500
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION$10,000
SIX RIVERS YOUTH SPORTS INC$10,000

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 7% — the area typically sits at 11%. 3% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$3.1M · 4 repeat orgs$444k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2023, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.1M

$374k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%

+66%

Still filing today

50%

87%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Civil RightsPhilanthropyArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentEducationOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

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TOWN OF HARPSWELL
6× · 2018–2023 · $2.9M
BD
BRUNSWICK DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION
6× · 2018–2023 · $102k · revenue +60%
UW
UNITED WAY OF MID COAST MAINE
3× · 2020–2023 · $26k · revenue -9%

Funded once

TIDES FOUNDATION
one grant, 2021 · $73k · revenue +23%
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NAACPgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $45k · revenue +2058%
MI
MAINE INITIATIVESgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $38k · revenue +363%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Maine & Company

Economic development in Maine.

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Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation

Maine Public is Maine's premier, independent media resource serving the entirety of Maine, dedicated to creating exceptional opportunities for the communities it serves to engage with critical issues, compelling stories, and quality…

Arts & Culture

Maine Media College

Maine Media College educates and inspires visual artists and storytellers to achieve their creative potential.

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University of Maine Foundation

Fundraising and endowment management for the benefit of the University of Maine

Education

Maine Equal Justice Partners

Maine Equal Justice is a Nonprofit legal aid and economic justice organization working to increase economic security, opportunity, and equity for people in Maine.

Crime & Legal

Maine Development Foundation

To promote economic growth in the State of Maine.

Community Improvement

Coastal Enterprises Inc

Grow a vibrant future for people and communities in maine and rural regions through community development finance.

Housing & Shelter

Maine Philanthropy Center

To provide opportunity, leadership, and support to advance the effectiveness of philanthropy in Maine and its ability to make a meaningful difference.

Education

Maine Association of Nonprofits

Our mission is to strengthen the leadership, voice, and organizational effectiveness of our State's nonprofit organizations so they can better enrich the quality of community and personal life in Maine.

Community Improvement

Clean Energy Transition Institute

To accelerate an equitable clean energy transition in the Northwest by producing unbiased research and analysis framing economic decarbonization strategies and convening stakeholders to debate the tradeoffs in building the clean energy…

Education

Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries

1) Deliver practical tools and support for today's fishermen to adapt and succeed in a changing fishery.2) Partner with schools and community based groups to provide 9-12, university-level, and professional education to prepare community…

Science & Tech

The Maine Center for Public Interest

The maine center for public interest reporting is an independent, nonprofit and nonpartisan news organization. it produces investigative and enterprise journalism on issues of public interest in the state of maine and publishes the maine…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Naacp Empowerment Programs Inc and the most unlike its peers is Smithsonian Institution. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

18 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

17/18

Grantees still filing

15/18

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$3,156,363Environment$101,850Philanthropy$92,803Civil Rights$61,291Community Improvement$50,000Crime & Legal$38,138Arts & Culture$35,226

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Maine Community Foundation IncME22.9× affinity9 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Onion Foundation · Impactassetsinc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation BOWDOIN COLLEGE funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

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2get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: RESOURCES FOR ORGANIZING AND SOCIAL CHANGE.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~13 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 4 filed years.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

4 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 010353747 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on RESOURCES FOR ORGANIZING AND SOCIAL CHANGE, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 13 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 22% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Bowdoin College?

Find your warmest path to Bowdoin College through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

BOWDOIN COLLEGE

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

18 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Bowdoin College?

More from the funding graph

BOWDOIN COLLEGE

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

18 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Bowdoin College?

More from the funding graph